Skirt hanger



5. MALOOF SKIRT HANGER Dec. 20, 1955 Filed June 18, 1955 United States Patent SKIRT HANGER Samuel Maloof, West Roxbury, Mass. Application June 18, 1953, Serial No. 362,513

2 Claims. (Cl. 223-96) This invention relates to clothes hangers and more particularly to a type of hanger adapted to grip the waist band of a skirt.

The object of the invention is to provide a skirt hanger which will securely grip a skirt band Without damage to the fabric, which is easy to operate and simple in construction, and which has no sharp projections likely to tear the garment. The hanger is particularly useful in factories, salesrooms and stores where the need for rapid handling is likely to lead to carelessness, and skirts are frequently jerked from incompletely opened hangers.

In the drawings illustrating the invention:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the hanger in the open position,

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the hanger in the closed position, and

Fig. 3 is a side view of the hanger.

To form the hanger, a single strand of heavy wire is doubled over in the middle and bent in the shape of the usual hook 5 intended to fit over a closet bar. The doubled over part of the wire is twisted to form a neck 6 and the remaining free end portions are bent outward from the neck to form arched arms 7 and 8. A second strand of wire 9 is run through the base of the neck and twisted around arms 7 and 8 part way out from the neck. Beyond this twisted portion, wire 9 forms straight fingers 10 and 11 projecting to either side of the hook. Arms 7 and 8 also have straight fingers 12 and 13, termi mating in loops 14 and 15 with bent down ends 16 and 17. These ends are directed downward and slightly outward so as to be in the usual direction of pull on the garment. In removing the garment, the user generally stands to one side of the hanger and pulls slightly toward him. The pull on the side away from him will tend to swing the hanger and bring the ends of the far loops in line with the direction of pull. Fingers 10 and 11 terminate in similar loops 18 and 19 also having downwardly directed ends. The pairs of fingers 10 and 12,

and 11 and 13 are normally sprung apart as shown in Fig. 1. In this position the waist band or margin of a garment may be inserted between loops 14 and 18 and loops 15 and 19 respectively. A sliding ring 20 encircles fingers 10 and 12, and a similar sliding ring 21 encircles fingers 11 and 13. When these rings are slid outward as shown in Fig. 3, they draw together the pair of fingers on which they are mounted, serving to clamp the garment between loops 14 and 18, and 15 and 19. For proper removal of the garment, both rings should be drawn back to the position shown in Fig. 1. If it should happen that a careless user jerks the garment from the hanger without properly opening one or both sides, it will be noted that, because of the fact that the free ends of the wire strands lie in the usual direction of pull and in the plane of the loops, the ends will not catch and tear the garment.

What is claimed is:

l. A skirt hanger comprising: a central hanger body; a pair of resilient wire fingers extending to one side of said body, each of said fingers terminating in a loop and a bent down free end disposed within the loop, and said loops being normally spaced apart; a ring encircling said fingers and slidable thereon to draw said loops together and clamp a garment therebetween; a second pair of resilient wire fingers extending to the other side of said body terminating in similar loops and downwardly extending ends; and a second ring encircling said second pair of fingers and slidable thereon to draw the loops thereof together to clamp the garment therebetween.

2. In a skirt hanger of the type having a pair of resilient spaced wire fingers on either side and a sliding ring mounted on each pair of fingers to draw them together and clamp the edge of a garment, clamping memhere for the garment comprising extensions of each of said fingers, said extensions being in the form of loops lying in a substantially vertical plane and disposed parallel to each other when the fingers are drawn together, said extensions having free ends disposed within and in the plane of the loops, and said ends being directed downward and slightly outward from the hanger.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 496,738 Jourdan May 2, 1893 2,398,138 Falcetti Apr. 9, 1946 2,503,844 Rotheraime Apr. 11, 1950 FOREIGN PATENTS 667,124 Great Britain July 17, 1950 

